Posted on 08/24/2004 8:23:39 PM PDT by Fedora
Thanks! Glad to hear other people are wondering about it, too.
You're welcome as always! :)
Please ping for part 2. Good work!!! Scary, but good!!!
Will be sure to ping you. It is scary, especially when I think about how the media is helping keep questions about Kerry's VVAW and other activity below the radar screen.
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"There's only one way to settle this: Clinton, Gore, and Kerry should have a contest to see who's the pinkest! To make sure the judging is fair, Jimmy Carter will supervise. . ."
I went to bed, so missed this one. Jimmah Carter, that man of "peace" and religion... would not understand the "contest".
He would say "BUSH".
Thanks for the ping on that and remembering that I'd read the book.
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I used to have a POW bracelet which I lost in college in Boston. My parents lived near D.C. and we visited the Vietnam Memorial often and I wondered whether that POW ever made it home.
The mythology surrounding our Vietnam vets and others is sad and has been created by the sKerry's of the world and Hollyweird.
That our soldiers, who have served so bravely, should be made to feel shamed is a national digrace!
Bump for later reading.
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Thanks! :)
Thanks for the link! Have added you to the ping list.
Saw you posted the thread linked in #75, so I thought you might be interested in this one.
His strident anti-war and pro-internationalism has convinced me.
When I was born, my parents never bothered to give me a middle name, but as a Catholic going through your First Holy Communion, you are required (at least you were back then), to pick a name. Mine was Marie. Call me stupid, but for many years, I believe that my middle name was really Marie and even used it when I applied for my original Social Security card (back in the '60's). It wasn't until several years later that I discovered I have no middle name on my birth certificate. Boy! what a let down that was. Out of the four kids, I was the only one who didn't have a middle name. I retired last year, and just recently, I went to the Social Security office and applied to get a new card with only my first and last name...no middle initial. I figured I'd better do it before I'm 62 and have all sorts of trouble processing my papers for my SS check.
Anyway, to get back to Kerry's initials on those reports. I know that the Left is trying to say that Kerry did not write his medal commendations. That may be true, but he may also have embellished the after action reports so much that the brass had no choice but recommend him for his awards. According to the Swift Vets, Kerry actually volunteered to write all the reports. For someone like Kerry, who apparently enjoyed writing enough to keep a lengthy journal of his Vietnam stay, I can certainly believe that he would jump at the chance to write these reports, especially if he could use them to his advantage.
Today I was listening to Mark Levin's radio program. Mark read comments from Kerry's 1971 Senate Testimony. Below are segments of that testimony. They are found under the Subtitle: ACCURACY OF INFORMATION THROUGH OFFICIAL MILITARY CHANNELS
Kerry is asked by Senator Symington: "Mr. Kerry, from your experience in Vietnam do you think it is possible for the President or Congress to get accurate and undistorted information through official military channels."
Kerry replies: "I had direct experience with that. Senator, I had direct experience with that and I can recall often sending in the spot reports which we made after each mission; and including the GDA, gunfire damage assessments, in which we would say, maybe 15 sampans sunk or whatever it was. And I often read about my own missions in the Stars and Stripes and the very mission we had been on had been doubled in figures and tripled in figures."
He continues on, mentioning friends of his who are intelligence officers [I didn't realize Kerry had any friends in Vietnam], and made suggestions regarding how intelligence info could be collected.
Then he says this: "I also think men in the military, sir, as do men in many other things, have a tendency to report what they want to report and see what they want to see."
In two paragraphs, John Kerry has provided us with the information that I believe proves he and no one else wrote and submitted all the after-action, damage, casualty, etc. reports from which all of his medals were derived. He even admits that ALL men, including himself, filed reports that contained information that was in all liklihood, not factual.
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